Requirements

Submitted by Guest on Sat, 21/07/2018 - 22:43

OpenVPMS can be installed on either a unix system (most commonly a Ubuntu* server), or a Windows system. For Windows, for small practices you can install on a desktop or laptop running Windows 7, 8 or 10; for larger practices it may be better to use a Windows Server operating system.

*NOTE: OpenVPMS requires MySQL 5.5, which is included in Ubuntu 14.04. Later releases include MySQL 5.6 or MySQL 5.7 which are only supported via configuration changes.

32 or 64 bit version? Both Java and MySQL are available in 32 and 64 bit versions. For larger systems (where you will want to run MySQL and Tomcat with large memory allocations) you should use the 64 bit versions. Otherwise the 32 bit versions are adequate.

NOTE: several users have indicated that LibreOffice 5 is not 100% compatible with OpenOffice. Fields may not merge correctly, and documents created in LibreOffice may look different when printed via OpenVPMS.

Optional Software

MySQL Workbench
This is not required by OpenVPMS itself, but if you are going to do any report development, then you will find that the Workbench’s ability to build and test SQL queries is very useful. You can download it from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench.